U+1230B Cuneiform Sign U
U+1230B was added in Unicode version 5.0 in 2006. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Cuneiform script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+1230B forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The cuneiform U sign is found in both the 14th century BC Amarna letters and the Epic of Gilgamesh. It can be used for the alphabetic u, instead of the more common 2nd u, (ΓΊ). It has two other uses, commonly. It can be used for the number 10 (especially the Amarna letters from Tushratta of Mitanni, or Burna-Buriash II the king of Babylon), but its probable greater use is for the conjunction, u, with any of the conjunction meanings: and, but, else, etc.
Of the three u's, by graphemic analysis (Buccellati, 1979), the commonness is as follows:
- Γ (cuneiform), conjunction only (but also rare, for alphabetic "u")
- ΓΊ (cuneiform), alphabetic 'u'
- u (cuneiform), alphabetic (minor), 10, conjunction (highest use)
Both Γ (cuneiform) and ΓΊ are in the top 25 most used signs, but E (cuneiform) and "u (cuneiform)" are not; other vowels (or combination) in the 25 are: a (cuneiform), i (cuneiform), and ia (cuneiform), (which has a secondary use as suffix, "-mine", or "my", thus in top 25 most used signs). Suffix "iYa" is used in the Middle EastSouthwest Asia at present day to end placenames, or other names: "My Xxxxx".
Representations
System | Representation |
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NΒΊ | 74507 |
UTF-8 | F0 92 8C 8B |
UTF-16 | D8 08 DF 0B |
UTF-32 | 00 01 23 0B |
URL-Quoted | %F0%92%8C%8B |
HTML hex reference | 𒌋 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ°βΕβΉ |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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5.0 (2006) | |
CUNEIFORM SIGN U | |
β | |
Cuneiform | |
Other Letter | |
Cuneiform | |
Left To Right | |
Not Reordered | |
none | |
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β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
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Any | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
β | |
None | |
β | |
NA | |
Other | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
Other Letter | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
Alphabetic Letter | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
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None | |
neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
β | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
none | |
not a number | |
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R |